Lincoln & Darwin : shared visions of race, science, and religion / James Lander.
| Author/creator |
Lander, James |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, |
| Description | xv, 351 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from UPCC Books History 2010 Subject Collection |
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| Variant title | Lincoln and Darwin |
| Contents | Origins and education -- Voyages and the experience of slavery -- The racial background, personal encounters, and turning points in 1837 -- Religious reformation -- Career preparations and rivals, 1845-49 -- Mortality, invention, and geology -- Scientific racism -- The types of mankind and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854-55 -- The politics of race -- Campaigning, 1856-58 -- Publications and crocodiles, 1859-60 -- More debates and new reviews -- Designers and inventors -- Inventions for a long war -- The Trent affair : a chemistry problem -- Delegation and control -- The rationality of colonization -- Colonization and emancipation -- Societies -- Mill workers and freedmen -- Testing hopes and hoaxes -- Spiritual forces -- Meeting Agassiz -- The descent of man -- An end to religion -- The dream of equality. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009041678 |
| ISBN | 9780809329908 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0809329905 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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